Citations:vernage
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English citations of vernage
- 2009, Mediaevalia, volume 30, page 84:
- “Good” wine receives repeated mention, an adjective often followed by “Greek,” which specifically refers to sweet, strong, red wines such as vernage, wines that must be handled with care. Unless the body needs their drug […]
- 2011 April 5, Margaret George, Elizabeth I: The Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
- "The monopoly for the tax on sweet wines, owned by your stepfather Leicester, expired with his death. I grant it to you. That gives you the custom fees for all the imported nectar wines from the Mediterranean—malmseys, muscatels, muscadines, vernages." […] I had set out several kinds of wines, including a selection of the ones Robert had the tax concession on—muscadines, malmseys, and vernages. The best cheeses from Staffordshire and dried fruit were arranged on platters […]
- 2019, Stephen Henry Rigby, Siân Echard, Historians on John Gower, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 203:
- In one section, Gower's taverner offers: 'vernage wine, Greek wine, and Malmsey. In order to make them spend more he names many kinds of wines to them: Candy, Ribole, Romanian, Provençal, and Montross; and he claims to have Rivere and Muscatel in his possession for sale. But he has not a third of these; rather he says this as a novelty, in order to induce them to drink' (MO: 26089-100).